San Beda Lion's Roar(Indian Chant)/Hippie Rain Chant

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Two decades of defiant Indian Yelling and War Chanting, coupled by the personal experience with student unrest centered on Mendiola, Bedans of the late 60s and early 70s identified themselves with the global counter-culture generation whose apex was reached during the August 15-17 Woodstock festival of 1969.

The Bedan infatuation with Native American war whooping was fundamental in the immediate adaptation of the American Indian inspired Hippie Rain Chant. Bedans were already chanting a shorter version of the "Wohoooo" for two decades and the emergence of the hippie wohoooo after Woodstock '69 was an opportunity to enhance the Indian war whooping. The integration of the Hippie Rain Chant with Bedan Indian cheering tradition particularly the Indian Yell was openly embraced.

The Lion's Roar (a.k.a. Indian chant) was initially used at the start of the Indian Yell to signify the preparation for the entry of the Little Indians and as a prelude to the Indian Yell. Eventually it served as a stand-alone chant distinct from the Indian Yell itself. This Hippie chant, considered as a derivative chant of all the previous "Wohoooos", and other American Indian inspired war whooping was popularized by Bedans in the Philippine collegiate sports.

Taken from:

http://animosanbeda.wordpress.com/

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